The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research, now in all-pdf form. Get a subscription now for only $25 a year!by Jeremy GormanMoncton, New Brunswick, CanadaOne day when I was wondering just what was...

Studying the DSM-5 to study psychiatry is so out of date. The new hot thing is to learn... ...In a teaching method dubbed "Psy-feld," psychiatry professor Anthony Tobia of Rutgers Robert Wood Jo... ...of various delusional disorders).
Learning psychiatry...

[http://youtu.be/wRBZ0Kjisl4] (YouTube link)If you read The Three Faces of Eve or Sybil, you are familiar with Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). Both books were based on real patients. The syndrome became a handy plot...

(Image: New Line Cinema)If Gollum seems a bit off to you when you interact with him, there's a reason why. He has a mental illness. But which one? In 2004, a group of medical students led by Nadia Bashir published an art...

If being in an abandoned psychiatric hospital isn't scary enough, this one may drive you into madness. Herbert Baglione, a Brazilian street artist, added images of souls trapped in a hospital in Parma, Italy. He calls th...

The following article is from the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research.
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by Alice Shirrell Kaswell, Improbable Research staff
The year 193...

Dr. Vasilis K. Pozios is a forensic psychiatrist and reader of superhero comic books. He's spent his career studying dangerous criminals and is now applying that knowledge to comic book villains and the way in which Batm...

In 1992, psychiatrist Richard Bentall wrote an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics proposing that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder. Here's his abstract:
It is proposed that happiness be classifi...

In 2000, a psychiatric patient drew a picture of a man who appeared in recurring dreams. The picture was left out on the doctor's desk, where another patient recognized it from his dreams as well! With a bit of investiga...

Nobody ever claimed a visit to the doctor was a pleasant way to pass the time. But if you're timid about diving onto a psychiatrist's couch or paranoid about popping pills, remember: It could be worse. Like getting-a-hol...